Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Team also wins Marketplace Innovation Award and Student Choice Award Earth Day 2012 proved exceptionally green for a Vanderbilt University team of five engineering seniors who designed a biohybrid solar panel that substitutes a protein from spinach for expensive silicon wafers that are energy intensive to produce, and is capable… Read More

Five Vanderbilt engineering seniors will be on the National Mall tomorrow through Monday demonstrating a solar panel that uses spinach to capture and convert the sun’s energy to electricity. The Vanderbilt team is one of 45 university and college teams from across the country competing in Phase II of the… Read More

From Industrial Biotech (Biofuels/chemicals) to Cell Therapies (Stem Cells): Delivering the Next Generation of Products and Processes Using Design of Experiments (DoE), Quality by Design (QbD) and Scale-up/Scale Down Methods April 16th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Tiffany D. Rau, PhD. Global Biotechnology Consultant The ability to quickly and… Read More

Two engineering faculty members were recognized for their achievements in and out of the classroom by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Spring Faculty Assembly March 29, 2012. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Janos Sztipanovits and David Weintraub at Faculty Spring Assembly in Langford Auditorium (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Janos Sztipanovits,… Read More

Using Molecular Simulation to Understand Wetting of Chemically and Geometrically Heterogeneous Surfaces March 19th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Reception at 2:45 p.m. Jeffrey R. Errington Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University at Buffalo The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY Fluids routinely interact… Read More

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering graduate program improved two positions to No. 35 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2013 graduate program rankings were released today. The School, which tied with the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Florida, ranks ahead of Virginia and Washington University… Read More

Miles Barr Miles C. Barr received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize March 8, 2012, for his innovative solar technologies and creativity. Barr received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice… Read More

Amanda M. B. Furtado’s PhD dissertation defense will be on March 15, 2012 at 1:00pm in Olin Hall 135.   NOVEL NANOPOROUS COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR LIGHT GAS ADSORPTION March 15th, 2012, Olin Hall 135 at 1:00pm Amanda M. B. Furtado Dissertation under the direction of Professor M. Douglas LeVan This… Read More

Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Adsorption Applications February 20th, 2012, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Krista Walton Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are inorganic-organic hybrids that represent a new direction in porous materials research. The rich field of coordination chemistry… Read More

Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis February 6th, 2012, SC 5326 Georges Belfort Howard P Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA Although the critical causative proteins for more than 20 amyloid diseases have… Read More